Experience Assessments is a new education product designed to help educators document, track, and understand each child’s unique developmental journey. It simplifies progress tracking by enabling observation capture during your daily routines, with whatever curriculum you use.
✅ Backed by research: Experience Assessments is a valid and reliable research-based system, evaluated by a third party and aligned with all 50 states, Head Start, and NAEYC standards.
With this feature, you can:
Log natural observations during classroom activities in the brightwheel app
Assign benchmarks digitally across multiple frameworks (Experience Curriculum, State Standards, Montessori, DRDP)
View visual reports to track growth over time and identify where further assessment or support is needed
Share updates with families all in one place
How to get started
To learn more about this feature and pricing, take the steps below. If you wish to subscribe and are eligible, you will see the option to input a payment method to purchase an Experience Assessment subscription.
Log in to brightwheel on the web
Click Learning > Assessments
Select See pricing or Request more info
If you are eligible to subscribe immediately, hit Review & pay to add a payment method. Otherwise, we will be in touch to help you get started.
FAQs
Who can use Experience Assessments?
Who can use Experience Assessments?
Users must be an active brightwheel Premium subscriber! A subscription to Experience Curriculum is not required as our assessments pair effectively with any curriculum
How is this different from Experience Curriculum Assessments or existing brightwheel observation capabilities?
How is this different from Experience Curriculum Assessments or existing brightwheel observation capabilities?
| Brightwheel Premium | Experience Curriculum Assessments | Experience Assessments NEW! |
Record observations | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ |
Assign benchmarks digitally | ❌ | Paper only | ✅ |
Reporting of student growth over time | ❌ | Paper only | ✅ |
Digitally share student progress | ❌ | Paper only | ✅ |
💬 Still have questions? We’re here to help! Reach out via in-app chat, or email assessments@mybrightwheel.com for support.